US521134A

US521134A - beooks

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Publication number: US521134A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1894-06-05
Anticipated expiration: 1911-06-05

Description

(No Model.)

B. J. BROOKS.

SEAL. N0. 521',134., Patented June 5, 1894.

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EDWVARD J. BROOKS, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY,

AssIeNoR TO THE E. J. BROOKS & COMPANY, OF NEYV YORK, N. Y.

SEAL...

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 521,134, dated June 5, 1894.

Application filed February 12,1894. Serial No. 499,935. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

3e it known that I, EDWARD J. BROOKS, a cltizen of the United States of America, and a resident of East Orange, in-the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Seals, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates primarily to improvements on what are known as button seals,

as set forth in the specification of Alphonse Friedrick forming part of Letters Patent No. 174,797, dated March 14, 1876; that is to say press-fastened seals in which the compressible soft metal portion comprises two disks united by a shank or stem around which the flex ble shackle-wire is wrapped or twisted preliminary to the pressing operation.

The invention may also be embodied in part in what are known as lead-and-wire horseshoe seals as set forth in my previous specifications forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,576, dated March 4, 1884; No. 368,126, dated August 9, 1887, and No. 512,274, dated January 9, 1894.

The present invention consists in provid ing such seals with a cut-proof lining of tagger-lron, or any suitable hard material, to prevent releasing either shackle-end by cutting 1nto the pressed seal without such mutilation thereof as to insure detection; and in so constructing the improved seal that all its parts may be assembled cold, and thus with increased economy as compared with seals in wh 1 ch the wire and safety devices are cast 1n.

A sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof.

Figures 1 to 3 and 5 and 6 of the drawings represent the separate parts of which the improved seal as a whole is preferably composed; Fig. 1 being an elevation of the shacklewlre; Fig. 2 face, edge and sectional views of the principal softmetal part, hereinafter termed the main seal-part; Fig. 3 face, edge and sectional views of that part of the cutproof lining appropriate to said main sealpart and hereinafter termed the inner liningpart; Fig. 5 face, edge and sectional views of a cap which completes the lining and is herelnafter termed the lining-cap and Fig. 6 face,

edge and sectional views of the flanged cap or front disk which preferably completes the.

view of the wire, main seal-part, and inner lining-part, Figs. 1, 2 and 3, as preliminarily united in course of manufacture by a pressing operation, and Fig. 4 is a magnified section on the line a-a. Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is a like view of the completed seal as it leaves the factory, with said lining-cap and seal-cap attached by riveting, and Fig. 7 is a sectional edge view with said lining-cap and seal-cap in section on the line b-b Fig. 7. Fig. 8 is a sectional face view of the improved seal ready for the press. Fig. 9 is a face view of the pressed seal; and Fig. 9 is a magnified section on the line 0-0 Fig. 9.

Like letters and numbers refer to like parts in all the figures.

In making the improved seal, a flexible shackle A (Fig. 1) of suitable length, and preferably of single wire of a suitable gage, is furnished at one end with a loop 1, which may be of the open horseshoe form shown in Fig. 1, or of any of the forms shown in said Letters Patent Nos. 294,576, 368,126, and 512,274; a main seal-part B (Fig. 2), of lead or equivalent compressible material, is cast or pressed so as to have a disk the face of which is provided with a notched marginal flange 2, and a central stem having two shoulders 3 4, with a rivet-stud 5 projecting beyond the outermost shoulder; a cup-shaped lining-part C (Fig. 3) having a central aperture 6 loosely fitted to that part of the stem of the main seal-part B which adjoins its disk, and fitted as a whole to the space within said marginal flange 2 of said seal-part, and a lining-cap D (Fig. 5) of like shape only larger and having a smaller aperture 7 fitted to said rivet-stud 5 of the main seal-part, are preferably punched from tagger-iron, but may be of any suitable hard material stamped, molded or pressed into shape, or partly of cloth or'paper coated with a hardening substance and. pressed into shape; and a front seal-disk or seal-cap E (Fig. 6), preferably of the same material as said seal-part B, and formed in like manner, is constructed with a central aperture 8 fitted to said rivet-stud 5, and preferably with a marginal flange 9 fitted to embrace said lining-cap D. In assembling the parts, said inner lining-part G is applied to said main seal-part B so as to rest on its disk within the flange 2, and the loop 1 of the shackle-wire A is then engaged with said seal-part as in said horseshoe seals, after which these parts are united by upsetting said shoulder 3 of the main seal-part upon said loop 1, as in said Letters Patent No. 512,274. Figs. 4 and 4 represent the parts A B and G as thus proliminarily united. The lining-cap D and the seal-cap E are then successively or simultaneously applied face downward upon the shoulder at of the seal-part B, and the rivetstud 5 is headed down so as to preliminarily attach these parts D and E as in Figs. 7 and 7 This completes the seal as an article of commerce; all its parts being securely united at the factory so that it is shipped and handled as conveniently as if composed of but one part.

After threading the free-end 10 of the shackle-wire A through a pair of car-door staples F (Figs. 8 and 9) or the like, said freeend is wrapped one or more times around the stem of the main seal-part8 between the separated flanges of the inner lining-part G and lining cap D and those of said seal-part B and seal-cap E, as illustrated by Fig. 8, which prepares the seal to be fastened by an ordinary seal-press in customary manner. In the pressed seal, Figs. 9 and 9, said loop 1 of the shackle-wire and also one or more loops of its free-end 10 are securely inclosed within a cut-proof lining formed by said inner liningpart C and said lining-cap D substantially as shown in Fig. 9, while the whole is inclosed in the lead or compressible material of the seal, which flows together within the press, and receives and retains the distinguishing marks with which the respective dies of the seal-press are provided.

The shackle-wire A may if desired be provided with an open loop 11 (Fig. 1) at its free-end to facilitate engaging this end with the seal-part B preparatory to the hnal pressing operation; or said free-end may be provided with a closed loop 12 (Fig. 4) to engage with the stem of said seal-part the lining-cap D and seal-cap E being in this case omitted; or in the button-shaped seal (with two disks) either of the lining-parts O and D may be omitted, or if the lining-cap D be employed the seal-cap E may be omitted without destroying the functions oi then'emarning parts; and other like modifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.

Having thus described the said improvement, I claim as my invention and desire to patent under this specification-- 1. The combination, in a seal, of a flexible shackle provided with a loop at one end, a compressible seal-part comprising a flanged disk and a shouldered stem, and a cup-shaped lining-part, of cut-proof inaterial to inclose the loops of the shackle-wire within the fastened seal, these parts being preliminarily united with each other by the metal of said stem,substantially as hereinbefore specified.

2. The improved seal composed of a flexible shackle-wire having a loop at one end, a compressible seal-part comprising a flanged d sk and a shouldered stem, the latter terminating in a rivet-stud, and a cup-shaped inner-liningpart surrounding said loop and stem within the flange of said seal-part, united with each other by an upset shoulder of said stem, and a cup-shaped lining-capand a flanged seal-cap opposed to said inner lining part and flanged disk and attached by said rivet-stud, substantially as hereinbefore specified.

ED\VARD J. BROOKS.

-Witncsses:

H. L. (J. WENK, N. S. KLINE.